00:00You've got a queer black woman walking into the room and there's always you're always met with a little bit of resistance anyway
00:05And I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it
00:10And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself
00:16After seeing this film it feels like it's coming out at the perfect time because it has so many powerful messages about empathy
00:22Standing up for what's right and also empowering and embracing those who are othered by society
00:28What message resonated with you the most and what message do you hope audiences take away when they go see it?
00:34I mean to me one of the most important themes I think is empathy having the ability to
00:41Change I hope that people will see it and be forced to look outside themselves and maybe look at how they can
00:49Have their I say this all the time, but have their bubble popped
00:53By the people in their lives and how they can become better
00:55I think you can always become more and more
00:59Good Cynthia when you were on our THR songwriters roundtable
01:03You had a really special moment with Julia Michaels where you encouraged her to own her power
01:08I love that clip
01:10Really important for you to be able to sit in the power of being able to make other people's dreams come true
01:15And that idea of owning your power I feel like is really applicable to this movie right for each of you in your own lives and careers
01:23When do you feel like you started owning your power and how did you get to that place?
01:26I think I've kind of had to do it
01:29sort of early on because I don't think
01:33Sort of like the choice isn't I haven't really had the choice to do either because I think whatever room I step into it
01:39I'm all I I come in looking like this
01:42Which is thank God well, I mean not like this, but you know what I mean in the skin and you know
01:47You've got a queer black woman walking into the room and there's always you're always met with a little bit of resistance
01:52Anyway, and I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it
01:57And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself so that you don't end up swaying from it
02:03Right that doesn't necessarily open all the doors
02:07But it does
02:08Still you a little bit, you know, and at some point the doors will open and mm-hmm
02:14The right ones will
02:15The right ones right right and it's not easy to do no, it's really not easy to do no
02:19So we're forced to yeah, and thank goodness. I'm glad you're doing it. Me too. Why miss Elphaba?
02:30Look at you
02:35You're beautiful
02:37This movie is just magical and on-spiring from start to finish and I feel like a lot of that has to do with all of the real sets and
02:46Mm-hmm and having those versus CGI how did those real practical sets aid you in bringing these characters to life well, I think
02:54the wonderful thing about having someone that's practical is that you
02:58Get to awaken all the senses so there's a you know
03:01You're seeing things you're hearing things, but you can touch things so we don't have to imagine anything there because we can
03:07See it and feel it and it's right there with us and it becomes a character in the movie itself
03:13It meant that we could really see how big the world was so we could
03:19Let that come through these characters and we could imagine flying and we can see the boats coming in the water
03:25And I think that was sort of the wonderful thing and also it allows for us to
03:30In those intimate spaces be in intimate spaces our dorm rooms really us the space that we hold together
03:36I think that's what adds to the magic of the world, you know, yeah, truly
03:43Ariana, I saw you on Broadway in 13
03:472008
03:49What would that young Ariana making her Broadway debut feel about playing this role and being in this movie oh my goodness?
03:57I mean, I
03:58I've said this but I feel like this whole experience has been such a homecoming for me because again I started in theater
04:05We've started on stage and
04:07um, you know to have
04:10Gone so many different routes along the way and to kind of find my way back
04:14Here I think has been really healing for my soul
04:17And I'm just very very grateful to be here with this material that I love so much and with this human being that I love so much
04:24to my left and um
04:27It's just been extraordinary and I think she would be
04:31Having an out of body I'm 31 and I'm having an out of body experience so
04:36The whole thing is just too much
04:38For me now for me then for us now for us then
04:41It's uh yeah deeply I'd be deeply grateful
04:45Watching the movie it seems like being in this musical theater world comes so naturally for you
04:50For both of you after being in this movie would either of you want to return to Broadway the Broadway stage
04:55And if so what would be a dream role for you to take on next I think I'm ready to try something new
05:00I think I'm ready to try something that hasn't been written yet something original I've done a lot of um
05:07material that exists
05:09Revivals and I think
05:11Now is probably the time where we can find something that I can originate yeah, that's thrilling. Yeah. I love that. Yeah
05:19I will do anything. I'm around
05:22And I'll send a tape. I'm kidding. I tell you I know I'm kidding. I would love to be on stage again
05:27I would love to be on stage with this one again. I would love to be
05:30I would fall out to me like yeah, but that could be fun
05:39I would die. You want to try? Yeah, I want to try
05:43I want to try. Do you want to try? We should we'll try come with me what to beat the wizard. Why couldn't puzzle me?
05:50This is your moment. I'm coming
05:52Wicked flies into theaters November 22nd for the Hollywood reporter news. I'm Tiffany Taylor
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